Download or read book Damage and Fracture of Disordered Materials written by Dusan Krajcinovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal objective of this book is to relate the random distributions of defects and material strength on the microscopic scale with the deformation and residual strength of materials on the macroscopic scale. To reach this goal the authors considered experimental, analytical and computational models on atomic, microscopic and macroscopic scales.